Job 8:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If your children sinned against him, he delivered them into the power of their transgression. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If thy children have sinned against him, And he have cast them away for their transgression; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If your children have sinned against Him, then He has delivered them into the power of their transgression. American Standard Version (1901) If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression; Common English Bible If your children sinned against him, then he delivered them into the power of their rebellion. Catholic Public Domain Version And if now your children have sinned against him, and he has dismissed them into the power of their iniquity, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Although thy children have sinned against him, and he hath left them in the hand of their iniquity: |
And when the feast days had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all, for Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This is what Job always did.
Their children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Know that all lives are mine; the life of the parent as well as the life of the child is mine: it is only the person who sins who shall die.